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Wounded hearts : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / Jennifer Travis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Men in literature.
- Law in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, this book suggests a different approach to reading emotionalism among men. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, it traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; one: Soldier's Heart: The Vocabulary of Injury and the American Civil War; two: Emotional Equity?: William Dean Howells and the Divorce Novel; three: Things Not Named: Willa Cather's Lost Men, Criminal Conversations, and Emotional Auras; four: On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James's The Golden Bowl; five: The Science of Affect: Professionals Reading and the Case of Ethan Frome; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877802
- 9780807877029
- 0807877026
- OCLC:
- 476237588
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